Happy New Year! {Best of 2012}

Wishing You a Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year!

As the year of 2012 comes to a close, I reflect on all the creative photographic opportunities that have come my way this year.  I am so thankful to ALL of my clients for allowing me to continually create unique and beautiful imagery with their little ones, high school seniors and families as my subjects.  The connections I capture between loved ones during photo sessions is truly an inspiration to me.

Your openness in sharing your unique histories and love enriches my life immeasurably!

It has been a pleasure providing your family with photographic heirlooms that will be cherished for a lifetime.  I am truly blessed to have the opportunity to share my vision with you.

Continue to follow my work in the coming year on my blog and Facebook page.

Coming Soon! Fine Art Print Online Storefront


Many blessings to you and your family!

To express my gratitude for you and your family, I am offering
$25 off any 2013 portrait session
{for returning clients only}.
Please mention this ad when booking your custom portrait session.

 Stay tuned for portrait session dates in the Reno/Tahoe, Northern Nevada/California Area 

in Spring, Summer & Fall 2013.

Happy Holidays!

        Sending Season's Greetings and Great Wishes  for the  New Year!

  
   One of the real joys of the holiday season is the opportunity to say "Thank You!".
           Thank you for your loyalty and choosing me as your family photographer.
                                    Thank you for referring me to family and friends.
                  And, thank you for following my work on my blog and Facebook Page.
                                           My business would not exist without you.

            It has been a pleasure providing your family with photographic heirlooms
                     that will be cherished for a lifetime.  I am truly blessed to have the
                                              opportunity to share my vision with you.

         Many blessings to you and your family!

              To express my gratitude for you and your family, I am offering
                                              $25 off any 2013 portrait session
                                               {for returning clients only}.
                         Please mention this ad when booking your custom portrait session.

                    Stay tuned for portrait session dates in the Reno/Tahoe,
    Northern Nevada/California Area in Spring, Summer & Fall 2013. 

Lily Turns One!

I first met Lily when she was in her mommy's belly.  I photographed her mom and dad before she graced the world with her presence.  It has already been an entire year since the first time I photographed her family.  I was so excited to finally meet Lily's bright and shining light and photograph her on her first birthday.

Lily is perhaps the happiest and most open-hearted baby I have ever known.  Her smile stretches from ear to ear among her rosy red cheeks {and button nose}.  She is so very curious {and independent, as her mom pointed out}... constantly moving on to the next fascinating stimuli within reach.

The baby girl with tutu and pearls is a concept I have been wanting to create since before I began my photography business.  I have pitched the idea to clients in the past but no one was really interested.  I had pretty much resigned the idea for someday when I had my own baby girl.  But then Lily came along and little did I know this moment was years in the making.  My patience in waiting was well worth it because I was graced with the most perfectly adorable, baby girl.  She was everything I had envisioned for this shoot {pink, chubby, wide-eyed, exuberant, darling, radiant}.  The universe works in mysterious ways.

Lily, thank you for sharing your endless smiles and laughter with me.  It was such a pleasure to photograph you on your first birthday.  Happy Birthday!
To Lily's mommy, Sarah~ Thank you for sharing your most wonderful bundle of joy with me.  She is a shining light in this world!

A chance to meet again...

A couple years ago I did some photography for Edible Reno~Tahoe Magazine.  My focus was, of course, the kid-centric articles about gardening and sustainability {like classroom gardening and worm composting}.  It was a great experience working with a local magazine and photographing some incredible children and organizations along the way.  

At one shoot in particular, I met this little boy.  He was very shy and nervous but also very curious.  He still is, although it's refreshing to see that he has become a fun and silly boy too.  It was a nice surprise to hear from his mother again, with her kind comments of how well I photographed her son despite his timid nature.  She asked me to do some photographs of her for her business portfolio and some of her son as well.  I suggested we do a few of the two of them together and I am so glad I did because these moments I captured are so precious.  Not many mothers have portraits with their children at this stage in life.  I feel so lucky to have been a part of documenting these memories.  My only hope is that these photographs will be cherished for a lifetime.